DasBlog on Amazon EC2

I've moved my blog over to a windows virtual system hosted on Amazon EC2.  Part of the process was also to update to the latest DasBlog, which I did.  It was an interesting experience and I'll write it up over the holidays. 

I'm still wondering whether or not I should move the whole blog over to Wordpress.  I'm going to work on that too.  Overall I'm real happy with EC2, except for the price of a windows system which I figure will be over $100 per month.  That's quite good for a business, but too much for a personal blog.

I do like having overall control of the blog though.  I think I noticed somewhere that the windows instance in EC2 was actually a linux machine virtualizing windows 2003.  I might be good if I can just virtualize an ubuntu instance, and then run windows 2003 inside of it (from my own licenses).  The linux boxes are much less expensive than the windows ones.